Showing posts with label baseball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baseball. Show all posts

Monday, April 26, 2010

Video- President Obama and the Yankees

Monday, April 5, 2010

Video- President Obama Throws First Pitch

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Photos- Michelle Obama, Jill Biden Take Part in World Series Pre-Game Ceremony with Yankees legend Yogi Berra



I went looking for video, but couldn't find any. These are just as good, via.


Saturday, September 26, 2009

Raw VIDEO: Sotomayor Throws Out First Pitch

By GottaLaff

Who knew Justice Sotomayor was a rightie? No, not that kind:


Justice Sonia Sotomayor was right down the middle with her ceremonial pitch at Yankee Stadium. The newest Supreme Court Justice, a Yankees fan from the Bronx, threw out the pitch before Saturday's game against the Boston Red Sox.
Those wise Latina women. Is there anything they can't do?

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Video- President Obama and Willie Mays on Air Force One

Video- The Daily Show: Obama's All-Star Pitch

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Video- President Obama Talks Baseball with Bob Costas

Videos- President Obama throws first pitch at the All-Star Game



Monday, July 13, 2009

Obama to join Fox broadcast booth for All-Star Game



He better start warming up that pitching arm...

Barack Obama will be adding baseball broadcaster to his résumé. SI.com learned Sunday that the President will join Fox Sports announcers Joe Buck and Tim McCarver during Tuesday's All-Star Game. Obama is expected to be in the booth sometime between the third and fifth inning. SI.com reported earlier that the White House was considering Fox Sports' request to interview the President during the game.

Obama is scheduled to throw out the first pitch Tuesday in St. Louis at Busch Stadium. He will be joined by former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter in a seven-minute video address to be aired during the pregame ceremony. The video will honor 30 Americans whom MLB and People magazine have recognized for service to their communities.

Major League Baseball says the video will mark the first time all of the living U.S. presidents will participate in a ceremony at a sporting event. Following the video, Obama will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. The last sitting president to throw out a first pitch at the All-Star Game was Gerald Ford, in 1976. "We have asked [for Presidents to throw out the first pitch] on a couple of occasions, but I think this year it's so appropriate given the scope of our pregame program," says Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. "It is very consistent with what President Obama has done. I wrote to him and he immediately accepted."

Friday, May 15, 2009

VIDEO: Obama Meets The Phillies


What do the Philadelphia Phillies have in common with President Obama?

“Nobody thought I would win, either,” the president said, drawing a parallel between his campaign and the Phillies’ championship run in 2008 as he met with the team Friday afternoon at the White House.
**Edited to add longer video.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Senator Kennedy Tosses First Pitch


G-d bless him.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Vice President Biden, Senator Ted Kennedy wind up for baseball honors

By GottaLaff


They asked. They got a yes. What a nice way to start the week:
Vice President Biden will head to Camden Yards in Baltimore on Monday afternoon to throw out the first pitch for the Orioles, the White House announced late Sunday.

In what is sure to be a more emotional visit, sources told local media outlets that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) would throw out the first pitch before the Boston Red Sox take on the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday afternoon at Fenway Park.

Kennedy's appearance is one of a handful he's made outside the Senate since being diagnosed with a brain tumor last spring. [...]

The vice president will be escorted to the mound by eight kids affiliated with Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI), a Major League Baseball program aimed at building a new fan base in areas where interest in the game has slumped over previous decades. [...]

Biden's and Kennedy's appearances may foreshadow another famous first pitch rumored to be set for next week. President Obama is rumored to throw out the first ball for the Washington Nationals when they hold their home opener next Monday against the reigning world champion Philadelphia Phillies.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Gramm-pa McCain to reporter: "He Would Hate To Live in Milwaukee"

By GottaLaff


From the Department of Majorly painful Gaffes, once again Gramm-pa McCain delivers:

This week, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain will come to Wisconsin to push for his candidacy.

Four years ago, he made a comment to a reporter that some people might not think would be so welcoming around here.

Reporter Mark Leibovich, now of the New York Times, heard him say that, as Leibovich put it in his 2004 article in the Washington Post, "He would hate to live in Milwaukee."

Oops. That probably wasn't wise. Perhaps his brain ceased to exist that day. Perhaps he had all his synapses forwarded to someone else's brain. Perhaps he was just being a typically dismissive crank.

"We were at a Diamondbacks game (against the San Diego Padres) in 2004, in the springtime. I was writing a profile of him for the Washington Post, which is where I worked then.

"We were just talking. He was just talking about various random things that two people sitting next to each other in the course of a three-hour baseball game talk about.

"For whatever reason, he said he would hate to live in Milwaukee. I put it in my story, and lo and behold, four years later, a radio station in Milwaukee has found it.

Maybe he was just commenting about a team or something. "Boy, how 'bout them A's. I'd hate to live in Oakland." No?

"I also remember putting in the story that he was heckling the opposing pitcher (the Padres' Jason Szuminski) when he was knocked out of the game. The pitcher had gone to M.I.T. He had given up three or four runs in half an inning, and he was coming off the mound and McCain yelled, 'Next up, NASA, buddy!' or something like that."

Note: Newsradio 620 WTMJ has contacted the McCain campaign for comment, and his campaign has not yet responded.

I wonder how he'll end up doing in Wisconsin when all is said and done.

Audio: Reporter Mark Leibovich's interview with Jagler and Mueller

H/t: AMERICABlog

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